The New Yorker is founded by Harold Ross and Jane Grant in 1925. The most popular video on their YouTube channel, NewYorkerDotCom,accompanies a 2008 piece about a man getting caught in an elevator for 41 hours:

Paris Hilton is born in 1981. itn asks her to describe her perfect date:

Madame Butterfly premieres at La Scala in 1904. theindependent interviews soprano Mary Plazas, who reveals what it was like to work with the late Anthony Minghella in his 2007 version: